📖WEB · 1 Corinthians 11:16
What does 1 Corinthians 11:16 mean?
"But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies."
— 1 Corinthians 11:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.
But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.
But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
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